30 September 2013 Last updated at 13:01 ET Hundreds of thousands of people are finding out if their application for tickets to events at the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games has been successful. Organisers have started to contact people who applied to watch the events. All ticket applicants will be contacted via letter or email over [...]

30 September 2013 Last updated at 10:44 ET Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. The looming US government shutdown – explained in 60 seconds A US government shutdown looms as Democrat and Republican lawmakers remain unable to strike a deal on a new plan to continue funding its operation. If they fail [...]

30 September 2013 Last updated at 13:17 ET Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. George Osborne tells Tory activists “Britain can do better than that” Chancellor George Osborne has said he wants the government to be running a surplus in the next Parliament and can get there without raising taxes. He told [...]

29 September 2013 Last updated at 10:46 ET Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Eyewitness Phil Beasley-Harling: “There was a big plume of black smoke” Thirty people were rescued when an amphibious tourist vessel on the River Thames caught fire close to the Houses of Parliament. Many people jumped into the river [...]

29 September 2013 Last updated at 08:56 ET Militants regularly target schools in Yobe, such as this one in Mamudo Suspected Islamist gunmen have attacked a college in north-eastern Nigeria, killing up to 50 students. The students were shot dead as they slept in their dormitory at the College of Agriculture in Yobe state. North-eastern [...]

29 September 2013 Last updated at 13:13 ET Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. David Cameron: “I’m not going to stand back while people’s aspirations to get on the housing ladder… are being trashed” A controversial scheme allowing people across the UK to take out 95% mortgages will be launched next week [...]

28 September 2013 Last updated at 12:50 ET Ministers from ex-PM Silvio Berlusconi’s party are resigning from Italy’s shaky coalition government, a spokesman says. More to follow. Article source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-24319274#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa

28 September 2013 Last updated at 11:50 ET Large parts of the mall were destroyed in the siege, which began last Saturday A sixth Briton has died following the siege at a shopping mall in the Kenyan capital Nairobi, the Foreign Office has confirmed. At least 72 people are known to have been killed in [...]

28 September 2013 Last updated at 10:30 ET Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. President Rouhani: [President Obama] “said ‘we in the US acknowledge the nuclear rights of the Iranian people’” Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has been met by hardline protesters chanting “Death to America” on his return from the UN forum [...]

27 September 2013 Last updated at 11:53 ET Prince George was born on July 22 The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have announced details of their son’s christening. Prince George will be christened on Wednesday 23 October at the Chapel Royal at St James’s Palace. The Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Reverend Justin Welby, will [...]